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BREWER, JOHN RICHARD GOODWIN
Rank:Seaman Cook
Service No:LT/JX 165972
Date of Death:20/02/1940
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Patrol Service
H.M. Trawler Fifeshire.
Panel ReferencePanel 4, Column 2.
MemorialLOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
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LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL

Country:United Kingdom
Locality:Suffolk
Identified Casualties:2397
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Location Information
The Naval Memorial is located to the north of the town alongside the A12 Yarmouth Road, approximately one mile north of the harbour.

The memorial is in a prominent position within a local authority gardens, known as Bellevue Park. The park is on the top of the cliffs and the memorial itself is on the edge of the cliff so providing an unobscured view of the foreshore and sea.

Commemorating almost 2,400 men of the Royal Naval Patrol Services who have no grave but the sea, the memorial consists of a fluted column rising from a circular base 12 metres in diameter surmounted by a bronze ship device (Lymphad), the uppermost point of which is over 15 metres from the ground level. Around the circular base are arranged bronze panels that bear the names. The panels are set in recesses and protected from the weather by a cornice.

A Portland stone panel at the front of the Memorial, flanked on either side by the Naval Crown with wreath and foul anchor, faces towards the sea.




Visiting Information
Car parking in the area is restricted and it is best to park in North Parade and enter Bellevue Park by way of the footbridge.

A copy of the Memorial Register is held at The Royal Naval Patrol Service Museum which is located a short distance from the memorial itself.

Another copy of the Memorial Register is kept at the Town Hall reception and is available to view during office hours: 09:00 to 16:30 Mondays to Fridays (closed on Bank Holidays).



Historical Information
The Depot for the Royal Naval Patrol Service, developed from the pre-war Royal Naval Reserve Trawler Section was at Lowestoft during the 1939-1945 War. At the outset of the war the men of this service were mainly the fishermen of the requisitioned trawlers and drifters used on patrol work, but later it included men from all walks of life and various types of small craft. In the spring of 1944 the Royal Naval Patrol Service reached its maximum strength of some 57,000.

Between 1942 and 1946 new construction ships and craft manned by the Service totalled 1,637, among them minesweepers of various kinds, corvettes, fuel carriers, motor launches and naval seaplane tenders. Their objective was to maintain wartime patrols and safeguard the coasts of Britain.
Lowestoft was chosen as the site for the Memorial to those men of the Royal Naval Patrol Service who have no other grave than the sea.

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Thanks a lot Cupcakes Iwas just looking and writing that down Horndean is not far from me (Havant) i will go and have a look out of curiocity
Thanks.

Hi George...

google search....Brewer, John Richard Goodwin - H.M. Trawler Fifeshire

and you will find his name on a memorial, if you can't find it let me know and

I will pm it to you.

Helen.

EDIT..have sent it pm just in case!

Brewer, John Richard Goodwin

Cemetery: Lowestoft Naval Memorial
Country: England
Area: Suffolk
Rank: Seaman Cook
Official Number: LT/JX 165972
Unit: H.M. Trawler Fifeshire.
Force: Royal Navy
Nationality: British
Details:20th February 1940. Panel 4 Column 2.

birth...


Births Sep 1908

Brewer John Richard G Fylde 8e 692

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Thanks cupcake anymore info please

from google search.....

Brewer, John Richard Goodwin - H.M. Trawler Fifeshire

Could anyone help me Please. I've been given a Royal Navy Certificate of Service For John Richard Goodwin Brewer b 9 August 1908 Could anyone let me know who is father is or were he was born or his wife. Anything its driving me nuts
Thank You